Lexic.us

Definition of Cinchona pubescens

1. Noun. Small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinchona Pubescens

Literary usage of Cinchona pubescens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1879)
"cinchona pubescens, Howard—A Fast-growing Variety.—Dr. JE De Vrij draws attention to a fast-growing variety of cinchona, to which the late Mr. ..."

2. An Illustration of the Genus Cinchona: Comprising Descriptions of All the by Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Jean Laubert, Hipólito Ruiz, Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1821)
"Amongst these was the cinchona pubescens, which Vahl has described as new, but which, as we shall subsequently prove, is the first Cinchona officinalis of ..."

3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"The bark of a variety of cinchona pubescens. C. rn'bra. (L. ruber, red.) The red Cinchona bark. ..."

4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"... it may be supposed that this bark originates from some species which is closely related to cinchona pubescens, perhaps even from that тегу same. 12. ..."

5. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1831)
"That in particular the yellow quinquina of the European Pharmacopoeias is produced by the cinchona pubescens, and probably also in part by the C. purpurea, ..."

6. Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of All the More Important Plants Used in by John Lindley (1838)
"Of Mr. Lambert's specimens from Pavon, one is marked " cinchona pubescens inedita;" two others " Cinchona sp. nova inedita de Loxa Quito Peru No. ..."

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